Inspirational Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

“Those who can sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen, the actual feeling of Zen, the marrow…

— Shunryu Suzuki

“But sitting is not something that we do for a year or two with the idea of mastering it. Sitting is something we do…

— Charlotte Joko Beck

People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.

— Frederick Lenz

Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There…

— Frederick Lenz

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

— Bodhidharma

In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

— Frederick Lenz

In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that…

— Frederick Lenz

Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we…

— Brad Warner

Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.

— Frederick Lenz

“In order to live Zen, we must experience every moment fully while engaged in it. This concept seems so simple, yet it had a…

— Ian Tuhovsky

I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.

— Natalie Goldberg

In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon…

— Frederick Lenz